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wiki needs a detailed comparison of other map sites (line weights, zoom levels, etc) #44

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openstreetmap-trac opened this issue Jul 23, 2021 · 2 comments

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Reporter: tom[at]tom-carden.co.uk
[Submitted to the original trac issue database at 12.20pm, Friday, 11th November 2005]

"Best Practice" Online Cartography spit!

We could do with looking at Multimap/Streetmap/GoogleMaps/Yahoo Maps/Virtual Earth/Mapquest etc and documenting the following things:

  • Regions covered (i.e. I only know of US/UK-centric sites - how does Japan do it? Russia? Eastern Europe? Scandanavia? Western Europe? Canada? India? etc. (sorry if I missed you))
  • Number of zoom levels (if fixed), zoom range (if dynamic)
  • Scale at each zoom level
  • Road line thicknesses in pixels at each zoom level
  • HTML colour values for water, parks, roads, main roads, motorways, etc.
  • Font style for place names, road names, places of interest etc.
  • Satellite/Aerial available, at what scales, in what areas
  • Directions available? Multiple waypoints allowed?
  • Does it have an API?
  • Does postcode lookup work?
  • Do its streets line up with its aerial views?
  • Is it free? Does it have ads?
  • How big is the map?
  • Does printing work?
  • Are there permalinks? If so what is its URL scheme for permalinks?
  • Can I send a friend a link to a map?
  • Does "right click/save as" work on the images? Is there another way to download an image? Other formats?
  • Does it use Flash/DHTML/Java/other?
  • If it can zoom in an AJAX-y, no page reloads way, does it scale the images until it has higher-res ones?
  • What browser/OS did you test on?

etc. etc. I'm sure you can think of more.

Divide and conquer people!

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Author: tom[at]tom-carden.co.uk
[Added to the original trac issue at 12.59pm, Tuesday, 29th November 2005]

Andy has started this here:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/wiki/index.php/How_Others_Do_It

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Author: sebastian[at]sspaeth.de
[Added to the original trac issue at 10.19pm, Tuesday, 15th May 2007]

This seems like a catch-it-all bug. Sorry, saying we must become better, is a little vague for trac tickets. i Suggest you collect ideas on the wiki and convert specific items into tickets. thanks.

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